The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, given that it was a country with a long history of resistance ...

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On this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut ... engineering, physics, and even art. Technological innovations have expanded the boundaries of what’s possible. Reusable rockets ...

Peterson began collecting Soviet art around the year 2000 ... There are portraits of national heroes like the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and idyllic depictions of collective farms: bountiful fields ...

"Can it be that you have come from outer space," she asked. "As a matter of fact, I have," replied Yuri Gagarin. This story of Gagarin's return to Earth after orbiting the planet, the most ...

The life and times of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man in space on April 12, 1961. See the full slideshow at Life. Where No One Had Gone Before America is proud of its ...

Visitors could witness Volga and Moskvitch, the most elegant state-of-the-art passenger cars ... It was in such a ship that Yuri Gagarin made his legendary flight on April 12, 1961; he himself was the ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarinis the featured on this cover art. University of Florida Press ... senior editor Diane Tedeschi. What made Yuri Gagarin a good candidate to be the first human in space?

Art Bites brings you a surprising fact ... Also included in that show was a tunic worn by Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, with whom Leonov trained before his own mission.

MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) – In Yuri Gagarin’s commemorative office the ... and works of pictorial art was presented. On 6 March Oleg Novitsky, Ivan Vagner, Marina Vasilevskaya, Anastasia Lenkova ...

Lightroom, Kings Cross, LondonThis potted history of Nasa’s space exploration featuring gigantic and crystal clear footage is invigorating if slightly hampered by its school science tone. Narrated and ...